Bodhtree partners with CompanyStore for centre of excellence

March 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - City-based IT service provider BodhTree Consulting has entered into a strategic partnership with Red Hat as independent software vendor (ISV), the company said Monday. Bodhtree's MIDAS (multi industry data anomaly solution) is now available on Red Hat JBoss enterprise platform, the IT company said in a statement.

December 28th, 2008 NEW DELHI - IT solutions provider Sun Microsystems India and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi are launching an e-governance centre on the IIT campus here to focus on development of non-proprietary software. The Sun-IIT Delhi Centre of Excellence is an outcome of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the institute and the IT company in September 2006.

April 14th, 2009 CHENNAI - City-based banking, financial services and insurance software company Polaris Software Lab Ltd will invest $20 million to set up a centre for excellence for insurance near Chennai, a top official said Tuesday. 'The eight-storey centre will house 2,500 employees and will be completed in 18 months,' Arun Jain, chairman and chief executive of Polaris, told reporters at the foundation stone laying ceremony.

May 28th, 2009 BANGALORE - Global software major Wipro Technologies has set up a virtual innovation centre for testing services on Second Life, the popular virtual world, the IT bellwether said Thursday. The innovation centre, a replica of the original lab at our campus in the electronics city will provide a one-stop virtual view of our Internet Protocol (IP)-powered solutions, the company said in a statement.

February 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - IT infrastructure solutions and services firm Frontier Business Systems has set up a $4-million (Rs.200 million/Rs.20 crore) green data centre here to expand its operations across the country, the company said Thursday. 'The data centre's green virtualisation solutions will enable enterprises to reduce cost while improving business service availability, agility and performance,' Frontier chief executive Ravi Verdes said in a statement.

September 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Aptara, Inc., a market leader in knowledge process outsourcing, today announced a major new delivery facility in Trivandrum, India. This leading-edge facility will be home to a Publishing Center of Excellence and to hundreds of professionals who provide advanced editorial, composition and production management services to Aptara's key customers.

March 26th, 2009 CHENNAI - Hinduja group's business process outsourcing (BPO) arm Hinduja Global Solutions will manage mobile telephony player Sistema Shyam Teleservices' customer care centre. The mobile telephony player launched its Tamil Nadu operations here Thursday and plans to scale it up across the state.

February 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will design and develop the next-generation fighter jet Gripen for the Swedish aerospace major Saab, a senior official of the IT bellwether said here Monday. Saab, whose strike fighter Gripen is in race for the Indian Air Force (IAF) order to induct 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) in its fleet, has set up an aeronautical design and development centre with TCS in Bangalore for the multi-million, multi-year contract.

May 5th, 2006 Amcat's contact center technology has been awarded the "CRM Excellence Award" from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for 2006. The award recognizes how Amcat's unified contact management system has helped U.S.

February 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - India can rightly be called the back office of the world for its achievements in Information Technology (IT) and IT-enabled services, Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Mao Siwei said Sunday. 'Now China is called the 'factory of the world,' while India the 'back office of the world'.

July 29th, 2009 LONDON - A decision to recruit at least 100 Indian workers, if not more, to fill finance and IT posts at the British Council in New Delhi and other parts of India has infuriated unions, who fear that this could be the blueprint for Whitehall. Final decisions about which jobs will go to India will be taken in the next few weeks, but they are expected to include 58 finance posts, up to 40 IT posts and 15 posts for a new centre of excellence, The Times reports.

April 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - SYSTIME , a CMS Group Company and the largest Oracle JD Edwards practice globally, has recently announced the appointment of Aloke Ghosh as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Aloke is a seasoned finance professional with a career spanning 20 years within the IT Services and manufacturing industries.

August 20th, 2009 Unify names shareholder representative to boardROSEVILLE, Calif. — Unify Corp., a provider of data management and e-mail archiving software, said Thursday it named Tim Bacci to its board of directors.

January 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The recruitment in the information technology (IT) sector in West Bengal is likely to be lower than the target set by the government due to the global economic meltdown, state IT minister Debesh Das said here Thursday. 'Last year we generated employment for around 15,000 people in the IT sector and this year we had set a target of 20,000.

June 29th, 2009 BANGALORE - InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced a major enhancement to its developer support program, aimed at enabling partners to test and integrate new components into InfoPrint ProcessDirector (IPPD), the flagship output management workflow system. This developer program extension creates a systematic and programmatic way for independent software vendors (ISVs) who want to expand IPPD functionality to interact with the InfoPrint technical team and InfoPrint development support resources.